Naming convention for plots? Recovered plots lost their name

[bibbler]

Hello,

had a partition error and recovered the plots to another drive. Problem is, the names of the files were not recovered. Is there a way to rename the plots to make them be recognised by the farmer?

Cheers,

Ben

[codinghorror]

Yes, I actually ran into this myself! Check out

Does it matter if you accidentally delete part of the plot filename?

OK so this is a weird one. In the process of pruning my garden, I may have accidentally deleted a character from the filename of the plot. So if the plot filename was, say: plot-k32-2021-05-05-21-56-0e60e386a4fe23ae7d2ef944f4287b478d95e234f78ad1603e391b49dcb9cbd2.plot I assume this is of the form plot-size-date-time-plot_id.plot I accidentally deleted that last character, the 2: plot-k32-2021-05-05-21-56-0e60e386a4fe23ae7d2ef944f4287b478d95e234f78ad1603e391b49dcb9cbd.plot ooops! This mean…

[bibbler]

ah alright, thanks! I renamed the restored plots, named them “plot-k32-xxxxxxxx.plot” while xxxxxxxx stands for the name the restore program gave each file, and they were immediately detected by the farmer.

phew, I am very relieved to see the exact file name is irrelevant.